· Private foundation
Comfort Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $140k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MERCY FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF IOWA | $40,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF IOWA | $30,000 |
| IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| BLANK PARK ZOO | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| PAWS & EFFECT | $10,000 |
| AHEINZ57 PET RESCUE AND TRANSPORT | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $5,000 |
| JOHNSTON PARKS AND RECREATION | $5,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CENTRAL IOWA | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $2,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $215k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- FBFOOD BANK OF IOWA7× · 2019–2025 · $190k · revenue +90%
- ARANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF IOWA INC5× · 2021–2025 · $180k · revenue +55%
- BPBLANK PARK ZOO FOUNDATION INC7× · 2019–2025 · $120k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- OCOZARK CATHOLIC ACADEMYone grant, 2019 · $20k
- HOHOSPICE OF CENTRAL IOWA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +34%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The organization's mission is to address the immediate needs of sick, injured, and orphaned wild birds, with the goal to return them to the wild and help educate and bring awareness to the global issue that birds are dissappearing at an…
To financially support the mission of the arl in order to promote welfare, the human-animal bond, and prevent the overpopulation of pets.
Empowering people. saving wildlife.
Animal lifeline is a special needs no kill animal shelter that helps dogs & cats that are abused, seriously ill, handicapped, pregnant & nursing moms, orphan babies that need to be bottle fed & abandoned. we provide vet care, surgery,…
Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.
As conservation leaders, the red river zoo connects our community to nature and inspires people to help save species.
To provide temporary shelter, food, medical attention, and comfort to displaced and neglected companion animals and educate the public about the humane care of animals with the goal of reducing overpopulation.
Founded in 2023, humane animal partners is a nonprofit no-kill animal care and adoption center. we are committed to providing for the needs of homeless and owned dogs and cats in our community. we make "friends for life" by connecting…
The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.
Operation of an animal shelter for unwanted and abandoned animals, community education to encourage humane treatment and responsible ownership.
To provide high-quality and compassionate care to community members approaching the end of life.
Rescue, care, and find homes for abandoned and/or abused animals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Habitat for Humanity of Central Iowa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Berry College Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 22 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds GREAT OUTDOORS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BLANK PARK ZOO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds PAWS AND EFFECT ↗
- Who funds AHEINZ57 PET RESCUE & TRANSPORT INC ↗
- Who funds BERRY COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CENTRAL IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF CENTRAL IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Comfort Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.